Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Lecture: Manga History

The British Design and Art Direction educational charity recently organized a lecture series on Japanese creativity featuring manga expert Helen McCarthy, the author of The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga.

"...Manga are really packages -- containers -- for hopes and dreams and
fears and manga are where we decode our ideas about Japan against its
own ideas," McCarthy says, "And we learn that decoding through the
language of line, a narrative language that is quite different from
words. But if we don't know its history, we won't see it clearly, we'll
see it as 'alien' or 'other' and it actually isn't 'alien' or 'other,'
it's actually much closer to home than you think."

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